Editorials in 2014

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  • NASA’s decision to renege on SOFIA project casts doubts over its reliability as a partner.

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  • Downgrading practical science will impede UK students in the global workplace

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  • European law has allowed citizens to force a debate on human embryonic stem cells less than a year after the previous one. This fruitless democratic exercise has left scientists spinning in uncertainty.

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  • Efforts to understand cancer genomes should take on a fresh focus.

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  • Two Nature papers signal new roles for this ancient metal in catalysis and cancer therapy.

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  • Russia deserves to be sanctioned, but halting scientific collaboration is not the way to do it.

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  • The launch of the first Sentinel satellite heralds an era in which detailed data on everything from earthquakes to urbanization will be freely available to anyone interested in Earth’s future.

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  • Above the ‘big neuroscience’ commotion, literature plays its part.

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  • Few biology degrees still feature natural history. Is the naturalist a species in crisis?

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  • The latest instalment of the Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change lays out the state of the world — and the challenges ahead.

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  • The decay at ancient Pompeii is symbolic of a deeper malaise in Italy’s heritage.

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  • Growth in yields of the cereal must double if the Green Revolution is to be put back on track.

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  • New views of quantum theory that can be tested and have practical applications bring welcome echoes of physics past.

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  • The recent Nature PastCast series is instructive as well as entertaining.

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  • The success of the $1,000 genome programme offers lessons for fostering innovation.

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  • A focus on specific biological targets rather than constellations of symptoms heralds a more scientific approach to the treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

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  • Research communities need to agree on standard etiquette for data-sharing.

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  • Universal theories are few and far between in ecology, but that is what makes it fascinating.

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  • US scientists should not be placated by the ‘flat budget’ myth. Funds are decreasing, and the situation will get worse.

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  • Identifiers that follow researchers’ work from grant to paper will make funding more effective.

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